Wow!!!!!!! This is a huge shock, as he appeared to be making huge progress last season. Hopefully whatever caused him to do this will get straightened out and he returns, because he had a special arm that was just coming around.

This is a very suprising move. A kid with a great arm retiring after finally starting to come around. Over at Soxtalk they were saying it might be something with his religous obligations (he went to BYU).

Randar68

04-06-2006, 03:37 PM

This is a very suprising move. A kid with a great arm retiring after finally starting to come around. Over at Soxtalk they were saying it might be something with his religous obligations (he went to BYU).

Lemon has already done his Mormon mission during his college career (why he is older)...

I highly doubt this is directly related to his religious beliefs.

Kid was slated to be in a full-season league so I can only guess at this point that it was injury related, so I agree with Jason's supposition.